geneva - Genesis:8-9

geneva@Genesis:8:1 @ And God (note:)Not that God forgets his at any time, but when he sends comfort then he shows that he remembers them.(:note) remembered Noah, and If God remembered every brute beast, that ought also to assure his children. every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

geneva@Genesis:8:2 @ The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,

geneva@Genesis:8:3 @ And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.

geneva@Genesis:8:4 @ And the ark rested in the (note:)Part of September and part of October.(:note) seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

geneva@Genesis:8:5 @ And the waters decreased continually until the (note:)Which was the month of December.(:note) tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

geneva@Genesis:8:6 @ So after fourtie dayes, Noah opened the windowe of the Arke, which he had made,

geneva@Genesis:8:7 @ And sent forth a rauen, which went out going forth and returning, vntill the waters were dried vp vpon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:8:8 @ Againe he sent a doue from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.

geneva@Genesis:8:9 @ But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he (note:)The raven flew to and fro, resting on the ark, but did not come into it, unlike the dove that was taken in.(:note) put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

geneva@Genesis:8:10 @ And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and againe he sent forth the doue out of the Arke.

geneva@Genesis:8:11 @ And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an (note:)Which was a sign that the waters were much diminished: for the olives do not grow on the high mountains.(:note) olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

geneva@Genesis:8:12 @ Notwithstanding he wayted yet other seuen dayes, and sent forth the doue, which returned not againe vnto him any more.

geneva@Genesis:8:13 @ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the (note:)Called in Hebrew Abib, part of March and part of April.(:note) first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

geneva@Genesis:8:14 @ And in the second moneth, in the seuen & twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.

geneva@Genesis:8:15 @ Then God spake to Noah, saying,

geneva@Genesis:8:16 @

geneva@Genesis:8:17 @ Bring forth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all flesh, both foule and cattell, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, that they may breede abundantly in ye earth, and bring forth fruite & increase vpon ye earth.

geneva@Genesis:8:18 @ So Noah came forth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him.

geneva@Genesis:8:19 @ Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery foule, all that moueth vpon the earth after their kindes went out of the Arke.

geneva@Genesis:8:20 @ And Noah (note:)For sacrifices which were as an exercise of their faith, by which they used to give thanks to God for his benefits.(:note) builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

geneva@Genesis:8:21 @ And the LORD smelled a (note:)That is, by it he showed himself appeased and his anger at rest.(:note) sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

geneva@Genesis:8:22 @ While the earth remaineth, (note:)The order of nature destroyed by the flood, is restored by God's promise.(:note) seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

geneva@Genesis:9:1 @ And God (note:)God increased them with fruit, and declared to them his counsel as concerning the replenishing of the earth.(:note) blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:2 @ And the (note:)By the virtue of this commandment, beasts do not rage as much against man as they would, yea and many serve his purposes by it.(:note) fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

geneva@Genesis:9:3 @ Every (note:)By this permission man may with a good conscience use the creatures of God for his needs.(:note) moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

geneva@Genesis:9:4 @

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geneva@Genesis:9:6 @ Whoso sheddeth man's blood, (note:)Not only by the magistrate, but often God raises up one murderer to kill another.(:note) by man shall his blood be shed: for in the Therefore to kill man is to deface God's image, and so injury is not only done to man, but also to God. image of God made he man.

geneva@Genesis:9:7 @ But bring ye forth fruite & multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.

geneva@Genesis:9:8 @ God spake also to Noah & to his sonnes with him, saying,

geneva@Genesis:9:9 @ And I, behold, I establish my (note:)To assure you that the world will never again be destroyed by a flood.(:note) covenant with you, and with your The children which are not yet born, are comprehended in God's covenant with their fathers. seed after you;

geneva@Genesis:9:10 @ And with euery liuing creature that is with you, with the foule, with the cattell, and with euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, vnto euery beast of the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:11 @ And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.

geneva@Genesis:9:12 @ Then God saide, This is the token of the couenant which I make betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing, that is with you vnto perpetuall generations.

geneva@Genesis:9:13 @ I do set my (note:)By this we see that signs or ordinances should not be separate from the word.(:note) bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:14 @ And when I shall couer the earth with a cloud, and the bowe shall be seene in the cloude,

geneva@Genesis:9:15 @ And I will remember my (note:)When men see my bow in the sky, they will know that I have not forgotten my covenant with them.(:note) covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

geneva@Genesis:9:16 @ Therefore the bowe shalbe in the cloude, that I may see it, and remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God, and euery liuing thing in all flesh that is vpon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:17 @ And God said unto Noah, (note:)God repeats this often to confirm Noah's faith even more.(:note) This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:18 @ Nowe the sonnes of Noah going foorth of the Arke, were Shem and Ham and Iapheth; Ham is the father of Canaan.

geneva@Genesis:9:19 @ These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth (note:)This declares what the virtue of God's blessing was, when he said, increase and bring forth in (Gen_1:28).(:note) overspread.

geneva@Genesis:9:20 @ Noah also began to be an husband man and planted a vineyard.

geneva@Genesis:9:21 @ And he drank of the wine, and was (note:)This is set before us to show what a horrible thing drunkenness is.(:note) drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

geneva@Genesis:9:22 @ And Ham, the father of (note:)Of whom came the Canaanites that wicked nation, who were also cursed by God.(:note) Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and In derision and contempt of his father. told his two brethren without.

geneva@Genesis:9:23 @ Then tooke Shem & Iapheth a garment, and put it vpon both their shoulders, and went backwarde, and couered the nakednesse of their father with their faces backwarde: so they sawe not their fathers nakednesse.

geneva@Genesis:9:24 @ Then Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his yonger sonne had done vnto him,

geneva@Genesis:9:25 @ And he said, (note:)He pronounces as a prophet the curse of God against all those who do not honour their parents: for Ham and his posterity were cursed.(:note) Cursed [be] Canaan; a That is, a most vile slave. servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

geneva@Genesis:9:26 @ He said moreouer, blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.

geneva@Genesis:9:27 @ God shall (note:)He declares that the Gentiles, who came from Japheth, and were separated from the Church, should be joined to the same by the persuasion of God's Spirit, and preaching of the gospel.(:note) enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

geneva@Genesis:9:28 @ And Noah liued after the flood three hundreth and fiftie yeeres.

geneva@Genesis:9:29 @ So all the dayes of Noah were nine hundreth and fiftie yeeres: and he died.

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